Handel: Tu fedel? Tu costante?: and other Italian Cantatas

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Encouraged by the graceful, animated playing of Koopman’s period band, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez deploys her ‘straight’, slightly mezzo-ish soprano with taste and refinement…[Mertens is] always... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

Release Date: 14th Oct 2016
Catalogue No: CC72265
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 64 minutes

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Handel: Tu fedel? tu costante? HWV 171a

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Ton Koopman, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Klaus Mertens
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Recitativo Tu fedel? tu costante?

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Aria Cento belle ami, Fileno

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Recitativo L’occhio nero vivace

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Aria Se Licori, Filli ed io

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Recitativo Ma se non hai più d’un sol core

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Aria Se non ti piace amarmi

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Recitativo Ma il tuo genio incostante

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Aria Sì, crudel, ti lascerò

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Handel: Tacete, ohimè, tacete!, HWV196

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Ton Koopman, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Klaus Mertens
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Tacete, ohimè, tacete!

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Non sia voce importuna

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Sol quando dorme Amore

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Handel: Dalla guerra amorosa, HWV 102a

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Ton Koopman, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Klaus Mertens
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Recitativo Dalla guerra amorosa

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Aria Non v’alletti un’occhio nero

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Recitativo Fuggite, sí fuggite

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Aria La bellezza è come un Fiore

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Recitativo Fuggite, sì fuggite

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Handel: Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell'oblio), HWV 134

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Ton Koopman, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Klaus Mertens
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Nel dolce dell’oblio, HWV 134: Recitativo Nel dolce dell’oblio

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Nel dolce dell’oblio, HWV 134: Aria Giacché il sonno a lei dipinge

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Nel dolce dell’oblio, HWV 134: Recitativo Così fida ella vive al cuor

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Nel dolce dell’oblio, HWV 134: Aria Ha l’inganno il suo diletto

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Handel: Giù nei Tartarei regni, HWV 187

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Ton Koopman, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Klaus Mertens
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Giù nei Tartarei regni

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Io ch’ardendo mi sfaccio

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Handel: Aure soavi e liete HWV 84

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Ton Koopman, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Klaus Mertens
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Recitativo Aure soavi e liete

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Aria Care luci, che l’alba rendete

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Recitativo Pietà, Clori, pietà!

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Arietta Un aura flebile

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Handel: Cuopre tal volta il cielo (HWV 98)

Work length10:50

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Ton Koopman, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Klaus Mertens
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Accompagnato Cuopre tal volta il cielo

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Aria Tuona, ballena, sibila il vento

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Recitativo Così fiera procella dà rio tormento

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Aria Per pietà di miei martiri

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Ton Koopman and his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra return after a long period to the world of the cantata with a disc which sees them record Italian cantatas by Handel for the first time, including the world premiere recording of Cantata HWV 171a.

Sometime in late 1705 or 1706 Georg Friedrich Handel, like many German composers before him, travelled to Italy, then the fountainhead of European music. During the next three years he paid extended visits to Rome and also spent time in Florence, Venice and Naples. In 1709-10, he returned once again to Florence and Venice. Rather than studying with some Italian master, as others had done, he quickly established himself as a virtuoso performer and composer, enjoying the support of leading patrons and composing numerous cantatas.

Lost music from Handel’s years in Italy rarely comes to light, but in 2015 a previously unknown and largely different version of the cantata “Tu fedel? tu costante?”, HWV 171, was discovered by chance, uniquely preserved in a manuscript belonging to Ton Koopman. A complaint of an injured love, both Handel settings of this text are for soprano, but in the new cantata, HWV 171a, the accompanying ensemble includes an oboe and after the first aria, it sharply diverges from the familiar version. HWV 171a was probably composed in Venice or Florence in late 1706.

Organist, harpsichordist and conductor Ton Koopman, one of the world’s leading exponents of Baroque music, founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in 1979. They have appeared with him on countless recordings, among them his two most ambitious projects: the complete Bach cantatas, a massive undertaking for which he was awarded the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis “Echo Klassik”, a BBC Music Magazine Award and the Hector Berlioz Prize, and the Opera Omnia of Bach’s predecessor, Dieterich Buxtehude, an edition of 30 CDs recorded between 2005-2014. In 2003 he founded his own label Antoine Marchand, a sub-label of Challenge Classics.

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February 2017

Encouraged by the graceful, animated playing of Koopman’s period band, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez deploys her ‘straight’, slightly mezzo-ish soprano with taste and refinement…[Mertens is] always musical…all the while the Amsterdam players are a buoyant presence whether in the energising continuo or the beautifully turned obbligatos

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Interview with Ton Koopman about rediscovery of Händel's Cantata HWV 171a (with subtitles)

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